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Image credits: Falak Vasa, Bearded Flamingos: on ‘Passing’, ‘Migration’ and ‘Camouflage’ (video still)
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In/habit roving art series
Most recent curatorial project
PLANTS & ANIMALS:
​On Monsters, Cyborgs and Other Hybrid Creatures
CURATED BY REBECCA LADIDA​
​​"How does feminist, queer, and magical theory disrupt our ideal of the evolving human? How does the Other, a creature of multiplicity, hybridity, and post-humanism, connect back to the land and to other species? As we evolve in conjunction with plants, animals, and the machine, in what ways will we intersect, hybridize, and reconvene?" ​- Tif Robinette
​​​PLANTS & ANIMALS: On Monsters, Cyborgs and Other Hybrid Creatures is a tentacular curatorial project comprising a series of performance, discussion, screening and broadcasting events on hybridity, ecologies and practices of inhabiting, interrogating Nature, and how we survive together. Hybridity is offered here as artillery against the scourge of centuries old Western binaries. It is an invitation to once again think about the categories of machine/nature/human in more-than-human worlds, together with queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. Plants and Animals is about thinking-with other species. It is about rethinking our relationship to “Nature”, and our understanding of the matters of care. While some are growing plastic eating living organisms, others examine the relations between botany and colonialism, our organ-izational imagination, our relationships to harm, healing, monstruosity, and the potential agency of objects. In Donna Haraway’s words, we are interested in sym-poiesis, the making-with, alongside with “self-making” practices.

More keywords: interspecies ethics, food politics, racializing assemblages, gendered monsters, native political thought, companion species, commonalities & differences between species, unclassified species, the human​
Pictured in the background of the flippable program is Lindsey French, it takes time to process unintended harm (2018).
​Poison ivy leaves gathered from Chicagoland parks, locally processed lard 

CURATORIAL FORMAT::: TENTACLES
+Gushing Tentacle: a reading  group about care and interspecies ethics 
+The art exhibit: May 25 to June 10+-The Learning Machine, Bridegport, Chicago
  The ART + SCIENCE Living Organism-based art Laboratory & a showcase of installations and visual art on hybridity
+Healing Tentacle: an afternoon of caring together in the exhibit space & yard with queer healers
+A performance event, co-presented and cross-contaminating with Dfbrl8r gallery's Bubbly Creek Performance Art  Assembly: June 8th @ The Learning Machine
ARTISTS LINE-UP ​(including opening night performers)
DJs
CROSS-CONTAMINATION 
In/habit + Dfbrl8r gallery's Bubbly Creek Art Assembly
Performance event  
June 8 2018
Other Plants & Animals collaborators
See ARCHIVE/Plants and Animals tentacles/events tabs above ^^^​
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Plants & Animals was curated by Rebecca Ladida with the help of the Plants & Animals artists and production team + precious ball throwers & magic makers: Alex Nawotka, David Sorich, CV Peterson, Marina Cavadini, Aurorae Parker, Emily Eckstrand & Alicia Rose (poster art!), Joseph Ravens, Michael S McKiernan, Whit Forrester, and Kelly Lesniak.
THANK YOU.
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Thank you to our community partners <3 

​Dfbrl8r Gallery 
Niu B Sushi provided us with delicious sushi for the opening night <3 
Chelsea McFadden Vegan Chocolates provided us with sea creature vegan matcha chocolate <3

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